Interesting article challenging The Left-Right Political Spectrum

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer104.html

This guy is saying some of the things I've been thinking for a while.


He proposes a vertical spectrum:

Anarchism
Libertarianism (classical "liberalism")
Conservatism
Modern liberalism
Welfare-statism
Limited state-socialism
Feudalism
Expansive state-socialism
Fascism/communism


Of course, restricting the model to ANY one-dimensional spectrum is still going to oversimplify things. But I still think he's got some good points here.

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Of course, restricting the model to ANY one-dimensional spectrum is still going to oversimplify things. But I still think he's got some good points here.

Certainly you mean 2 dimensions.

As for him, I think he's full of shit. If you have 2 dimensions, it doesn't matter in the least if you call them horizontal or vertical. What kinda crack has this guy been smoking?

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[SpeedRacer 1]

well, a single line would be one dimensional.

The Nolan Chart is an example of a two-dimensional version.

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As for him, I think he's full of shit. If you have 2 dimensions, it doesn't matter in the least if you call them horizontal or vertical. What kinda crack has this guy been smoking?

You need to read it more carefully. of course it doesn't matter if you call them horizontal or vertical. His point is that the whole "democrat" vs "republican" or "liberal" vs. "conservative" have, at least in modern times, lost or changed meaning to the point of losing significance, and maybe the yardstick should be measured by degrees of personal freedom.

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